On 22/08/2011 20:56, Gunnar Bittersmann wrote:
>> 3 Declaring language in HTML
>> http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/new-language-decl/qa-html-language-declarations
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> “[…] use language attributes on elements surrounding that content if you
> want to style or process it differently.”
>
> Drop the conditional sentence, I’d say: … use language attributes on
> elements surrounding that content. Period.
>
> Just do it regardless if you want to style or process it differently or
> not. You might want to do so in the future, and it would be no good to
> add the language information _then_ instead of _now_.
That para now reads:
"If you have any content on the page that is in a different language
from that declared in the html element, use language attributes on
elements surrounding that content. This allows you to style or process
it differently."
>
> Additionally, I believe that no data is better than wrong data. So once
> the language is declared in the html element, the language information
> for content in other language(s) would be wrong if not declared there.
Not sure i understand this.
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>
>
> “only allows characters - no markup”
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> Use en dash: only allows characters – no markup
Fixed.
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> “If you want to specify the language of some content but there is no
> markup around it, use a span or a div element around the content.”
>
> Or an i element (with class), as proposed in
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags
That's a little more complicated, so i changed the text to:
"use an element such as span or div around the content"
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>
>
> “the language code az”
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> Mark 'az' as code (as other language codes before): the language code
> <code class="kw">az</code>
Done.
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>
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> “the dir attribute”
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> Mark 'dir' as code (as other attribute names before): the <code
> class="kw">dir</code> attribute
Done.
Thanks,
RI
>
> Cheers,
> Gun*nitpicker*nar
>
>
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